Just a little late posting this Halloween card. This gorgeous dog stamp is by Nellie Snellen. It's quite small but it has a lot of detail. When I first saw this stamp I thought, he looks a little sad and in need of a home, so I gave him one.This Stamp would be great for several types of card. Pet loss, missing you, I'm sorry, and thinking of you cards all came to mind immediately. My thought process is ...if you can think of more than two occasions you can use a stamp for ... buy it.
Once it arrived I started stamping and colouring the images in different colours to see how he looked in various colours. I masked him off and blended ink around him to give him a colourful background.
I had some witches hats floating around my desk, left overs from the broomstick projects I'd been working on the previous week. Which gave me the idea of giving the dog a hat. He certainly has a reason for looking unhappy now. This then lead to me creating a Santa hat for him.
I cut a piece of red card into a shape that roughly resembled a Santa hat and brushed some ink over the edge of a piece of scrap paper to give the impression of creases and folds in the hat. Then cut a white sausage shaped piece of card for the furry trim and flocked it and stuck it on the hat with thin foam pads for a little more dimension. I added a white pompom to the tip of the hat to complete the Santa look. The sentiment on this card is from last year's Stampin up mini winter catalogue, I think.
I got a little carried away with him. Here he is without his hats in golden tones.
Then I decided to find out what he'd look like as a chocolate spaniel. The red background may have been a mistake with the browns on this one. The red background seems to bring out the red tone in the browns making him look quite red, more so in this photo .
For this last one I decided to leave the background white.
Such a sad looking puppy. I thought I'd include this close up so you can see just how much detail there is on this stamp.
